In January 2005 I took a trip to Albuquerque for the winter AAPT meeting. These pictures depict my hotel, and the sidetrip five of us took to Sandia Peak.
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My hotel, La Posada de Albuqeurque, was old and had lots of cool decor. My friend Sarah loves tin lights (partially because her dad makes them) so I took pictures of the tinwork in and around my room. This is the light fixture in my bathroom. |
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The light fixture in the entryway of my room. |
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The light switch. |
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Light fixture in the hallway, next to the elevator. |
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The doors were old-fashioned, too. I don't know the last time I saw doors in a hotel that looked like they could have come straight out of my grandfather's house. |
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Giant wooden louvers on shutters for blinds. Also, the window was just single-pane glass in a wood frame. There wasn't even a screen. (Perfect for suicidal leaps, as I was on the ninth floor.) |
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I took these while standing in the driveway at Dedra's parents' house. |
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Taken from the car -- hence the slight blurriness -- as we drove towards the mountain. |
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Another car shot, here you can see the blue tram towers and the ground station on the right. |
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Taken from the tramway parking lot, those giant blue towers are what hold the cables up. There are just the two of them, plus the stations at the top and bottom. There was another man taking a picture at the same time I was, and he was talking to somebody he called "Sparky". Only after I took my picture did I see said person, whose head appears in the bottom left of my picture. ^_^ |
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One of the tram cars appraoches the station. |
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Views of the city from the parking lot. Clearly, we were already up aways from the city. |
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Another parking lot picture. I was intrigued by the butte on the horizon. I tried lightening up the foreground in this picture so it wouldn't be half blackness. Pick whichever one you like better. |
| Now I'm in the tram car riding uphill. I took a bunch of pictures of rocks, slopes, etc.. Some of them are blurry or smeared because of the motion. I don't really know that there's much I can do to fix it. I ran unsharp masks on a couple of them, and it helped some, but not much. | |
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| At the top of the mountain we got out into the cold and extremely windy air. We got at the top just at the perfect time for that "golden" sunset light, so I took a couple pictures of stuff near me as well as the landscape to the east, opposite the sun, where there was some nice purple sky going on. | |
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| Here are a couple direct shots of the sunset. For both pictures I've prodided two versions, one untouched, the other with some foreground brightening. (I really wanted that sign to be legible...) | |
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A shakey shot of the city from the peak. |
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My colleague, Yuhfen, holds up her camera to take a picture. |
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An attempt to capture the city lights. Can you tell it was windy? |
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Back at the base station at the bottom of the tramway, I took this much more stable shot of the city lights. |